Orthoorama



59 solar eclipses tall
the permafrostbear growls down
a stone face

one bridge after the other never to turn on the turmeric finger

still recovering from birth
I live
under my hair

turn to swallows to snow to salt out where the ocean's lost

slowly outgrowing
the state of perpetual
innocence

looking back until the white in your eyes becomes space

talking to clouds
she brings just one
mercury pill

deep inside its head the whale grows a tree

knead light into a bowl
and then … the melatonin-angel
scatters

by the far end of your gaze neurons become deserts

Ygdrasil  VOL XXIV, Issue 9, Number 281 September 2016